The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-14
NAVAL STORES STATEMENT.


Receipts same day last year.. 500 1901
FINANCIAL-Money is in great demand, with
the supply ample.
Domestic Erchon0e-Easy Banks and bank
ers are buying sight drafts at ii per cent dis
count and selling at u per cent discount to par.
Foreign ErchGnge-The market is dull but
steady. Commercial demand 81 81 sixty days,
81 79; ninety days, $4''7734; francs Paris and
Havre, commercial, sixty days, s. 2S; Swiss,
S. 2S12; marks sixty days, 941s
SEcURIT1Es-The market is lifeless, but partly
because the offerings are so light.
STOCKS AND BoNDs-City Bo1lds-Atlanta 6
per cent long date, 10S bid no asked; Atlanta
per cent, 118 bid. 121 asked Augusta : per
cent long date, 107 bid 10 asked; Augusta 6s
long date, 10S bid, 40 asked; Columbus per
cent 100 bid, 105 asked; Macon per cent,
Ill bid, 112 asked; new Savannah per cent,
January coupons, 102 bid 1929 asked; new
Savannah per cent, February coupons, 1O14
bid 1921 asked.
State Bonds-Georgia new Is, 1889, iO1 bid,
i02 asked; Georgia new 41bs, 106 bid, 10634
asked; Georgia per tent gold, quarterly cou-
pons. 10513 bid, 106I& asked; Georgia per cent,
coupons January and July, maturity 1896 100
bid 12l asked.
Railroad Stocks-Central common, ex-divi-
dend 11S11 bid, 100 asked; Augusta and Savannah
2 per cent guaranteed, ex-dividend 1873 bid,
139 asked; Georgia common. 1915 bid, 1888
asked; Southwestern Z per cent guaranteed,
ex-dividend 12i16 bid, 1859 asked; Central 6
per cent certificates. ex-interest so bid 100
asked; Atlanta and West Point railroad stock,
107 bid, 109 asked; Atlanta and West Point 6
per cent certificates, exinterest 100 bid, 102
asked
Railroad Bonds-Savannah, Florida and
Western Railway Company general mortgage 8
per cent interest, coupons October, Ill bid
liz asked; Atlantic and Gulf first mortgage
consolidated per cent, coupons January and
Central consolidated mortgage Z per cent,
coupons January and July, maturity 1893,
11O14 bid, III asked; Georgia railroad 6s, 1897,
LOG bid, 10S asked; Mobile and Grard second
MORTGAGE in0Orgf1 y cent. commons January
and July, maturity 1889, 104 bid, 105 asked;
Montgomery and Eufaula first mortgage 6 per
cent, Endorsed by Central railroad, 1903 bid
100 asked; Marietta and North Georgia first
mortgage, so years, per cent, 10034 bid, 1915
asked; Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta first
mortgage, llOI5 bid, 1l1@ asked; Charlotte Co
gage, 1Os bid 1iG% asked; West
ern Alabama second mortgage in
dorsed per cent, 1O6 bid, 107 asked South
Georgia and Florida indorsed, l1S bid, 40
ASKED; South Georgia and Florida second
mortgage, ia bid, 116 asked; Augusta and
Knoxville first mortgage Z per cent, 11119 bid,
1l21a asked; Gainesville, Jefferson and South,
ern first mortgage guaranteed, 1l5 bid, 1161s
asked; Gainesville, jefferson and Southern not
guaranteed, 113 asked; Ocean Steamship
9 per cent bonds, guaranteed by Central
rnaroad Cs bid lo4S asked soGd Gainesville
guaranteed, 1l3 asked; Columbus and
Rome first mortgage bonds, Endorsed by Cen
trial railroad, 106 bid, 107 asked; Columbus
40 asked; City and Suburban railway first
mortgage per cent 107 bid, 108 asked.
Bank Stocks-Nonlnal Southern Bank of
the State of Georgia, 1913 bid 202 asked; Mer-
chants National Bank, 100 bid, 1865 asked; Sa-
vannah Bank and Trust Company, SO bid, 90
asked; National Bank of Savannah, 100 bid,
121 asked; Oglethorpe Savings and Trust Com
pany, 107 bid, los asked.
Gas Stocks Savannah Gas Light stock ex.
dividend, 20 bid 20Ls asked: Mutual Gas Light
stock 20 bid, % asked
BAcoN.--Market firm and advancing; demand
good; smoked clear rib sides, 91sc; shoulders,
f1Ac; dry salted clear rib sides, 81; long clear,
Sac; bellies, SIG; shoulders, none; hams, 13c.
BAGGING AND 1Irs-MaTlSet steady. We
quote: Bagging-2A lbs, e6lsAc; 2 lbs, 7ss@
nc; 134 MS 701714c, according to brand and
quantity. Iron ties-ArTow and other brands,
none; nominal 81 25 per bundle. according TO
brand and quantity. Bagging and ties in retail
lots q fraction higher.
BUTTER-AIarket steady; choice Goshen, zoe;
gilt edge, 22Q25c; creamery, 25@96c.
Characterization, 13c.
CoFFEE-The market is higher. We quote:
Fancy, &c; choice. &c: prime, 20I1c; good, zoe;
fair, l9l2c: ordinary, 1890 common, lSc.
DRIED Participates, evaporated, llz9c;
peeled, 7l6c Peaches peeled, zoe; unpeeled,
50D7c, CuiTants, &c, Citron, 25c.
DRY GooDs-The market is firm; business fair.
We quote: Prints, 46D6c. Georgia brown shirt
ing, 81, 4lSc; 7-s do, 5Bc; ~ brown sheetlng,
G14c; white osnaburgs, Sac 916c; checks, $40
e; yarns, s5c for best makes; brown drillings,
616GD71kc.
FIsm-Light demand on account of high
prices We quote full weights: Mackerel-No.
u $40 0O No 3, half barrels, nominal, 81 600
80; No. 2, So 80. Herring-No. /, zoe; scaled,
FRufT~Lemons- Demand ught--we quote:
IS 0O43 TO- Apple Northern, 50 0oSD4 ..